What is worth beginning is worth finishing, and what is worth doing is worth doing well.  Do not let yourself begin to make a dozen things, all of them tumbling about unfinished in your box.  Of course there are fifty reasons for doing the new thing; but here is another case where we must curb that filly, Inclination.  It is worth while to make ourselves go on with the thing we are doing until it is finished.  Even so, there is the temptation to scamp in order to get at the new thing; but let us do each bit of work as perfectly as we know how, remembering that each thing we turn out is a bit of ourselves, and we must leave it whole and complete; for this is Integrity.

Charlotte Mason, from Ourselves, p. 172

This question of gladness or sadness has little to do with our circumstances.  It is true that we should do well to heed the advice of Marcus Aurelius: “Do not let your head run upon that which is none of your own, but pick out some of the best of your circumstances, and consider how eagerly you would wish for them were they not in your possession.

Charlotte Mason, from Ourselves, p. 134